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Date: Tue May 17 2005 - 08:44:45 EDT
Phil,
We left Little Harbor on a nice day with normal swells in our CSY44, drawing 4'6", and still worried that we would be hitting bottom due to the up and down vertical travel.
I don't care where this theoretical thread leads with respect to bottom readings and waves. Past experience from crossing the bar extending south from North Bimini blocking the channel entrance between North and South Bimini provided many examples of disaster for boats, both sail and power, that tried to negotiate the channel with seas running.
It was always prudent to anchor in the lee of South Bimini and wait for seas to subside instead of trying to negotiate a channel that showed plenty of water, if waves were coming at you. On one trip, during which I waited for two days for the seas to subside, when I finally chose to cautiously poke around S. Bimini and enter the harbor, there were 9 wrecked boats on the beach that had attemted to make it into the security of the inner harbor. Had they waited for the waves to drop to under 6', they would not have bottomed and been wrecked.
When in doubt, play it safe!
Martin Veiner
M/V Micha
St. Marks, Florida
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